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Broad-scale Impacts of Plant Response to Fire

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Howard, Janet L. 1992. Chamaebatia foliolosa. In: Fire Effects Information System, [Online]. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory (Producer). Available: http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/

Common Names

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mountain misery
bear-clover
bearmat
kit-kee-dizze
ket-ket-dizze
tarweed
Sierra mountain misery
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Description

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Mountain misery is a low, erect, native evergreen shrub from 0.5
to 2 feet (0.2-0.6 m) in height [29].  The multibranched stems arise at
intervals of a few inches from a complicated and sometimes matlike
system of roots and rhizomes [32].  Individual rhizomes have been
measured at over 82 feet (25 m) in length (Munn, in [31]) and extend
from 4 to 16 inches (10-40 cm) beneath the soil surface.  Roots are
found as deep as 4.9 feet (1.5 m) belowground [30].  Masses of
multilobed nitrogen-fixing nodules have been found on roots of plants
near Pollock Pines.  Examination of roots in areas where soils have
thick surface horizons (Ao), however, revealed no root nodulation in
that horizon.  Roots in lower horizons were not examined [35].  The
fernlike, viscid, aromatic leaves are pinnately dissected into tiny
crowded segments.  Each segment is tipped with a resin gland.  Flowers
are glutinous.  The fruit is an achene about 0.5 inch (5 mm) long,
containing a single seed [20,21,24,29].
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Distribution

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Mountain misery is distributed along western slopes of the
Cascade Range and the Sierra Nevada from Shasta County south to Kern
County, California [24,29].
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Fire Ecology

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The resinous, finely divided leaves of mountain misery are highly
flammable, especially when draped with fallen pine needles and other
forest debris.  Mountain misery will carry surface fire, and the
species is an important element of fuel loads in California's mixed
coniferous and ponderosa pine forests.  Expert opinions on natural fire
frequencies in these forests vary.  Fire scar studies show average
frequencies of 8 years [4].  Some authorities, however, feel this method
gives results that are too conservative.  Biswell [4] estimated a
natural fire occurrence of about every 4 years in mixed
coniferous forests.  Biswell [4] thought ponderosa pine forests of
California burned approximately every 2 to 3 years.  Prior to fire
suppression, fires in mixed coniferous and ponderosa pine forests were
almost always surface fires, carried in large part by highly
concentrated fine fuels composed of mountain misery and
coniferous needles, cones, and twigs caught in its foliage and tangled
woody stems [4,32].

Mountain misery survives fire by sprouting from the root crown,
roots, and rhizomes following top-kill [15].  It reestablishes on burns
almost exclusively from sprouting [16].

FIRE REGIMES :
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Fire Management Considerations

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Mountain misery will carry prescribed ground fire when present in
the understory [11].  It is difficult and time-consuming to construct
fire breaks within its growth, however, because the numerous, tangled
woody stems, rhizomes, and shallow roots must be removed in order to
expose mineral soil [32].

If managers wish to decrease mountain misery cover through the
use of prescribed fire, late spring/high consumption prescriptions
appear to be most effective.  Early spring/moderate consumption fires
reduce densities the least [15].  Prescribed burning, however, is only a
temporary method of controlling this vigorous sprouter.

Mountain misery regrowth affords good soil protection in burn
areas [32].
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Growth Form (according to Raunkiær Life-form classification)

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   Phanerophyte
   Chamaephyte
   Geophyte
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Habitat characteristics

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Mountain misery grows in a Mediterranean climate, characterized
by mild, wet winters and hot, dry summers.  At one representative site
in the central Sierra Nevada, annual precipitation averages 68 inches
(173 cm), with about 98 percent falling between October and May.  The
top 12 inches (30.5 cm) of soil is dry from June to September.

The most common soil series supporting mountain misery has a
loamy texture in surface horizons, grading to a clayey loam with depth.
Soil pH is acid to moderately acid [21]. 

Plants occur at elevations between 2,000 and 7,000 feet (610-2,134 m)
[20].

Associated overstory species not listed under Distribution and
Occurrence include sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana), incense-cedar
(Calocedrus decurrens), Pacific dogwood (Cornus nuttallii), and sequoia
(Sequoiadendron giganteum).  Understory associates include bush
chinquapin (Chrysolepsis sempervirens), mountain whitethorn (Ceanothus
cordulatus), deerbrush (C. integerrimus), wedgeleaf ceanothus, Mariposa
manzanita (Arctostaphylos manzanita), greenleaf manzanita, whiteleaf
manzanita, and gooseberry (Ribes spp.) [1,34].
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Habitat: Cover Types

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This species is known to occur in association with the following cover types (as classified by the Society of American Foresters):

   207  Red fir
   211  White fir
   243  Sierra Nevada mixed conifer
   244  Pacific ponderosa pine - Douglas-fir
   245  Pacific ponderosa pine
   246  California black oak
   247  Jeffrey pine
   249  Canyon live oak
   250  Blue oak - Digger pine
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Habitat: Ecosystem

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This species is known to occur in the following ecosystem types (as named by the U.S. Forest Service in their Forest and Range Ecosystem [FRES] Type classification):

   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
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Habitat: Plant Associations

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This species is known to occur in association with the following plant community types (as classified by Küchler 1964):

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   K005  Mixed conifer forest
   K007  Red fir forest
   K010  Ponderosa shrub forest
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K030  California oakwoods
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Immediate Effect of Fire

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Fire top-kills mountain misery [15].
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Importance to Livestock and Wildlife

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Mountain misery is usually considered unpalatable browse of low
nutritional quality [8,32].  The resinous oils of the foliage have a
penetrating odor throughout the growing season that repels most animals.
In winter, when rains have washed the glutinous leaves, wildlife utilize
the plant in varying degrees.  Black-tailed deer consume more of the
foliage than other wildlife.  Deer eat it while migrating, and in some
localities it comprises a great portion of their winter diet.  On the
Jawbone Ridge winter deer range of Tuolumne County, where mountain
misery has a frequency occurrence of 75 percent, stomach analysis
shows that mountain misery provides 37 percent by volume of the deer's
winter feed.  This degree of ingestion is more striking
when compared to the volume percentage consumed of better known browse
species.  Wedgeleaf ceanothus (Ceanothus cuneatus) makes up only 12
percent by volume of winter diets of deer on Jawbone Ridge.

Livestock find mountain misery unpalatable even after winter
rains [29].
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Key Plant Community Associations

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Mountain misery clones form a low-growing layer in open ponderosa
pine (Pinus ponderosa) and mixed coniferous forests [29].  Stands occur
in patches, providing from 20 to 90 percent cover [30].  In the Challenge
Experimental Forest of the Plumas National Forest, density in the mixed
coniferous forest is as high as 17,068 stems per acre (42,175 stems/ha)
[15].

In California black oak (Quercus kelloggii) forests, mountain
misery frequently codominates the understory with whiteleaf manzanita
(Arctostaphylos viscida) and greenleaf manzanita (A. patula) [25].

Publications listing mountain misery as a dominant understory
species are as follows:

Profiles of California vegetation [7]
Montane and subalpine vegetation of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Ranges [28]   
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Life Form

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Shrub
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Management considerations

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Timber:  Mountain misery greatly reduces survival and growth of
conifer seedlings [20,22,23,32].  The deep roots are strong competitors
for limited water resources.  Tappeiner and Radosevich [30] examined its
effect on ponderosa pine seedlings on a good site at the Blodgett
Research Station of El Dorado County.  Treatments were: (1) untreated
mountain misery, (2) mountain misery sprayed with a
mixture of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T prior to tree planting, and (3) mountain
misery eliminated by a combination of herbicides, clipping, and
grubbing to stop root and rhizome invasion.  After 3 years, ponderosa
pine seedling survival was only 13 percent on untreated plots.  Spraying
prior to planting resulted in 71 percent survival, and complete control
resulted in 97 percent survival of trees.  After 19 years, tree heights
averaged 5.2 feet (1.6 m) with no treatment, 6.2 feet (1.9 m) with the
herbicide mixture, and 18.7 feet (5.7 m) with the combination of
treatments.  When this loss is extended to 50 years, net wood production
would have been reduced an estimated 75 percent as a result of mountain
misery competition.

Control:  Mountain misery is sensitive to intermediate in
response to foliar spraying of phenoxy herbicides and is susceptible to
such applications of dicamba and triclopyr [5,18].  Aerosol application
of triclopyr temporarily reduced mountain misery canopy volume by
94 to 96 percent on the Tahoe National Forest [18].  Mountain
misery may sprout vigorously following herbicide treatment, and one
application probably will not provide adequate control.  Plants may
actually be rejuvenated by a single treatment.  Thorough site
preparation, which controls mountain misery before planting and
permits good establishment of conifer seedlings, followed by spraying of
mountain misery sprouts is recommended.  Growth of conifer
seedlings and competing mountain misery should be evaluated for
at least 10 years after planting [30].  Best results are obtained when
herbicides are applied in spring or early summer during the period of
new leaf initiation [18]. Mountain misery can also be controlled
by grubbing.

Plywood, used as an unusual mulch for Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga
menziesii) seedlings on a plantation in the central Sierra Nevada,
killed mountain misery beneath it and increased soil moisture
available to seedlings in midsummer [22].

Control of mountain misery is problematic for forest managers.
Although it greatly inhibits growth of young conifers, it is of
considerable value as a slope stabilizer of watersheds and because it is
a host species for nitrogen-fixing bacteria [32,35].  Additionally,
Sampson and Jesperson [29] thought that heavy black-tailed deer use on
some winter ranges should be taken into consideration when managing this
species.
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Nutritional Value

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Nutritive value is reported to lessen in winter months [29], but
quantitative nutritional studies of mountain misery were not
found in the literature.
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Occurrence in North America

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Palatability

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The value of mountain misery as browse is good to fair for
black-tailed deer, fair to poor for domestic goats, poor to useless for
sheep, and useless for cattle and horses [29].
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Phenology

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New leaf initiation begins in spring, with flowers opening from May
through July [12,20,24].  Growth usually stops in midsummer, probably
limited by inadequate soil moisture [12].  Seed is disseminated in fall
[32].  Leaves are retained for 12 to 19 months before abscission [27].
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Plant Response to Fire

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Recovery from fire is rapid.  Three years following top-kill by a
wildfire of unreported severity on the Tahoe National Forest,
mountain misery sprouts were 1.6 to 16 inches (24-40 cm) tall, and
occupied 1,612 square feet per acre (370 sq m/ha) [18].



Mountain misery sprouts flowering, 15 months after the 2013 Rim
Fire on the Stanislaus National Forest.

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Post-fire Regeneration

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   Small shrub, adventitious-bud root crown
   Rhizomatous shrub, rhizome in soil
   Geophyte, growing points deep in soil
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Regeneration Processes

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The primary method of reproduction is vegetative.  Mountain
misery produces clones from its rhizomes, roots, and root crown [15,21].
Sexual reproduction is less frequent.  Methods of seed dissemination
were not reported in the literature.  Seeds require from 1 to 3 months
of cold stratification (35 to 41 degrees Fahrenheit [1.7-5.0 deg C])
prior to germination [20].
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Regional Distribution in the Western United States

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This species can be found in the following regions of the western United States (according to the Bureau of Land Management classification of Physiographic Regions of the western United States):

    4  Sierra Mountains
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Successional Status

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Mountain misery is moderately shade tolerant, growing under open
tree stands but not under closed canopies [1,14].  When fire or other
disturbance occurs at regular intervals, it attains subcanopy dominance
within 3 to 4 years and remains dominant until the next disturbance
[6,13].  Mountain misery is a climax understory species in
ponderosa pine forests, which are fire-climax in California [2].
Without fire or other disturbance, it will decline as the overhead
canopy closes [1,14].
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Taxonomy

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The currently accepted name of mountain misery is Chamaebatia
foliolosa Benth., in the Rosaceae, or rose, family. There are no
recognized subspecies, varieties, or forms. Chamaebatia australis
(southern mountain misery), once described as C. foliolosa var. australis,
is now considered a distinct species [24,33].
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Value for rehabilitation of disturbed sites

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Mountain misery has high value for watershed protection because
it checks runoff, prevents erosion, and maintains the moisture
absorption capacity of soils [32].
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Comprehensive Description

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Chamaebatia foliolosa Benth. PI. Hartw. 308. 1848
An erect shrub, 3-10 dm. high, with brownish-black smooth bark; branches numerous, leafy, glandular-hirsute and tomentulose when young; leaves thrice pinnatifid, obovate or ovate in outline, 2-10 cm. long, 1.5-6 cm. wide, viscid, glandular-hirsute on the rachis and its branches; ultimate divisions elliptic, 0.5-1 mm. long, gland-tipped; stipules small, linear; cymes few-flowered, terminating the young branches; bracts leafy, pinnatifid or toothed; pedicels glandular-hirsute; hypanthium turbinate, 4 mm. high, densely glandular-hispid without, villous within; sepals lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, short-acuminate, about 4 mm. long; petals white, obovate, 6-8 mm. long; filaments filiform; anthers orbicular; ovary more or less white-hirsute.
Type locality: Mountains near Sacramento, California. Distribution: Western slope of the Sierra Nevada California.
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Chamaebatia foliolosa

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Chamaebatia foliolosa is a species of aromatic evergreen shrub in the rose family known by the common names mountain misery and bearclover. It is endemic to the mountains of California, where it grows in coniferous forests. The Miwok tribe's name for the plant was kit-kit-dizze.[2] It was used as an herbal remedy for colds, coughs, rheumatism, chicken pox, measles, smallpox and other diseases.[3]

Description

The stems are covered in dark brown bark. The foliage is made up of 3-pinnate leaves, meaning the frondlike leaves are made up of leaflets which in turn are made up of smaller leaflets which are also subdivided. The fernlike leaves are up to 10 centimeters long, frilly in appearance and dotted with sticky glands. The roselike flowers have rounded white petals and yellow centers ringed with many stamens. The species has been documented as carrying out nitrogen fixation, unusual for a plant in its family.[4] Black gum from the plant may stick to clothing, and it is highly flammable due to its resin.[5]

References

  1. ^ "NatureServe Explorer". NatureServe Explorer. NatureServe. 2022. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
  2. ^ Bibby, Brian; Aguilar, Dugan (2005). Deeper Than Gold: Indian Life in the Sierra Foothills. Heyday. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-930588-96-0.
  3. ^ "BRIT - Native American Ethnobotany Database".
  4. ^ Heisey, Rod M.; Delwiche, C.C.; Virginia, Ross A.; Wrona, Anne F.; Bryan, Barbara A. (1980). "A New Nitrogen-Fixing Non-Legume: Chamaebatia foliolosa (Rosaceae)". American Journal of Botany. 67 (3): 429–431. doi:10.1002/j.1537-2197.1980.tb07669.x. JSTOR 2442354.
  5. ^ Whitney, Stephen (1985). Western Forests (The Audubon Society Nature Guides). New York: Knopf. p. 433. ISBN 0-394-73127-1.

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Chamaebatia foliolosa: Brief Summary

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Chamaebatia foliolosa is a species of aromatic evergreen shrub in the rose family known by the common names mountain misery and bearclover. It is endemic to the mountains of California, where it grows in coniferous forests. The Miwok tribe's name for the plant was kit-kit-dizze. It was used as an herbal remedy for colds, coughs, rheumatism, chicken pox, measles, smallpox and other diseases.

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